1) Uber uses Spark and Hadoop to process large amounts of transportation data in real-time and batch. This includes building pipelines to ingest trip data from databases into a data warehouse within 1-2 hours. 2) Paricon is Uber's first Spark application which infers schemas from raw JSON data, converts it to Parquet format for faster querying, and validates the results. It processes over 15TB of
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